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Sacrificial Steel
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781949065350
Publisher: Driftwood Press
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.38 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
McGowan utilizes form, precision, braiding, and sound to capture the essence of contemporary lyric poetry.
This collection is both tightly structured and expansive, covering subjects both personal (like grief and marriage) and political (American politics and ecological concerns). It also contains many ekphrastic poems.
McGowan's voice is singular in the way it blends research and the vernacular. These poems are full of feminist wisdom and humor but ultimately explore the nature of existence in a declining world.
This book captures place well, with a particular focus on the South and Florida. In this collection, nature and the animal world are juxtaposed with human endeavors and frailty.
Sacrificial Steel, winner of Driftwood Press's Editors' Pick Prize, is about what humanity builds and what it destroys. It is for fans of lyric poetry, art, and music, and for anyone trying to find meaning in the chaos of history.
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